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Quotes from On Human Conduct — Michael Oakeshott

1901–1990 England

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Understanding is not such that we either enjoy it or lack it altogether. To be human and to be aware is to encounter only what is in some manner understood. Thus, it may be said that understanding is an unsought condition; we inexorably inhabit a world of intelligibles.

On Human Conduct (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Oakeshott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.